9 Mar 2016 3:00 pm
On top of the medically unnecessary regulations, there are also huge cuts to spending on contraception and STI services in the bill.Florida’s war on women: State passes massive anti-choice bill to shut down access to abortion and contraception.
Florida just passed a major bill that would shut down abortion clinics and take away birth control.
Even though a law almost exactly like it is still being reviewed in the Supreme Court, the state of Florida just passed a massive anti-choice bill that, under the guise of supporting women’s health, is aimed at cutting off as many women as possible from abortion, contraception, and STI prevention and treatment services. Most of the bill is modeled after the one in Texas, the one the court is currently reviewing, which uses medically unnecessary red tape to regulate abortion clinics out of existence.
Supporters of the Texas abortion ban “flash their big anime doe eyes up toward the bench and say they are merely concerned about maternal health,” Dahlia Lithwick writes in Slate, but that’s just a “winking, pretextual shell game” to shut down access to abortion care. The same stupid, nakedly dishonest (wasn’t Jesus against lying?) game is going on in Florida.
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Seems to me that if you want to cut down on the number of abortions it doesn't make much sense to also cut down access to contraception.